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The Random Red Door

By Peter Dean Rickards • Jul 3rd, 2008 • Category: Features

Standing near the intersection of Church and Chambers street in Manhattan, I noticed a bright brick wall and a old door that obviously hadn’t been used in years. It’s about 6 in the afternoon and the sun is going down, casting shadows on everything, except for the red door and about ten feet of sidewalk […]



One face, eight pictures

By Peter Dean Rickards • Jun 23rd, 2008 • Category: Features

Noella Arnold, Norbrook. June 21, 2008



The Sandbox

By Peter Dean Rickards • Jun 19th, 2008 • Category: Features

Sand (that’s his name). Tuesday June 17, 2008 at The Rocktower, West Street, Kingston.



Robbie Shakespeare: King of Bass

By Peter Dean Rickards • Jun 11th, 2008 • Category: Features

Photographed June 11, 2008 at Anchor Studios, Windsor Road, Kingston.
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The Great Sly Dunbar

By Peter Dean Rickards • Jun 9th, 2008 • Category: Features

Photographed June 6, 2008 at Anchor Studios, Windsor Road, Kingston.
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Sly and Robbie: Wikipedia
Sly Dunbar at Dummer World: http://www.drummerworld.com



Chinnaman’s Gaming Shop, Denham Town

By Peter Dean Rickards • Jun 8th, 2008 • Category: Features

Ah childhood. Seems like only thirty (or so) years ago when my biggest worry was the precarious hierarchal politics of the schoolyard where kids who carried briefcases to school were sadistically beaten with sticks.
Yes, those were the good old days, when the worst thing that could happen was to return to the bike rack […]



The street photography of Stefan Simikich: Jamaica 2005

By Peter Dean Rickards • May 30th, 2008 • Category: Features

People like Stefan Simikich. He’s the sort of person who you could leave in any part of the world and he would fit right in without ever showing up on the radar as an outsider.



The Girl next door is Dead

By Peter Dean Rickards • May 30th, 2008 • Category: Features

Model: Cindy Wright

Nobody likes a goody-twoshoes, especially if they drink nothing but bottled water and won’t to help you steal a car (even if you really, really need one).
They cry when you kick the dog or push Grandfather down the stairs, and they’re always spoiling things with their everlasting advise; just when you’re starting to […]



First moment: Reverend Al takes a bike ride

By Peter Dean Rickards • May 29th, 2008 • Category: Features

Reverend Al Sharpton, New York, May 30, 2008.



The Japanese…again

By Peter Dean Rickards • May 27th, 2008 • Category: Art & Design

You have to admit, they pretty much beat out everyone in the proverbial Department of Weird.